I've loved the idea of the entry way of this house for years now. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's (AKA Le Corbusier), La Maison Blanche. It was the first home he ever built. He designed and built it for his parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1912. The entryway is beautifully wallpapered in painted Jute. When I saw this book Opis-1 a few years ago in 2008 I had already been thinking about Jute as a surface for painting, collaging, and constructing the mobiles and collages which would become the subject of my current show Painter's Forms, at Pepin Moore. I had some Burlap (Jute) sandbags lying around the studio from a previous flood. It seemed like such a modern material when painted.
Geoff Tuck also references that same thing here in his post about the show, Take an abstract object and make it fall apart: Painter's Forms at Pepin Moore. "The jute or burlap paintings, which appear only in bits and pieces in photographic representation, have wonderful heavy textures and simple colors that remind me of – you’ll forgive a fanciful comparison – the rough and earnest fabrics of Danish Modern design. (It’s probably silk or fine wool when used for upholstery, but still, the affect of common materials is in place.) We find in Rogers’ new work a reference to Modernist architecture after all." Bingo Geoff! You nailed it!
iPhone Details taken from, Eveline Perroud's Opus 1, Published by Verlag Niggli AG, 2008
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